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Pc in another room from mastersocket

DanTheMan87 — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 08:29:31 GMT

Hi there,

Moved in to a new build recently, master socket is in living room and pc is in office across the house. There is telephone sockets throughout the house including in the office.

At the moment I have the router plugged in to the phone socket in the office, but engineer told me my bandwidth would be better if the router was in the master socket and it may have to go in there (living room) if I upgrade to a BT tv box.

How can I have optimum connection speed to pc without running a long ethernet cable through the house, or use powerline adapters (I read they can decrease performance)?

I also play games and so do not want to connect pc to wifi.

Can I buy a second router and simply plug it into the phone socket in the office and run and ethernet cable from that to my pc?

Advice welcome please

Re: Pc in another room from mastersocket

Keith_Beddoe — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 08:38:31 GMT

@DanTheMan87

Welcome to this user forum.

No you cannot plug another router into the phone socket in the office.

I doubt if there is much speed difference between the master socket and the extension, but you could always try it and see.

What does your master phone socket look like?

Re: Pc in another room from mastersocket

DanTheMan87 — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 10:07:38 GMT

Hi Keith,

It looks like number 2 on the picture

Re: Pc in another room from mastersocket

Keith_Beddoe — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 10:31:26 GMT

@DanTheMan87 wrote:

Hi Keith,

It looks like number 2 on the picture

Thanks.

The wiring to your extensions sockets must come from the terminal block under the front cover.

If there is a wire in connection position 3, then that will affect the broadband speed on all of the extensions, and is not needed.

If you also look under the cover of each extension, and also disconnect wire 3, that will mean that only 2 and 5 are connected (just a single pair), as that is all that is needed for both phone and broadband.

Leave the home hub in the office, and if you do decide to get BT TV, then BT will send you a couple of mini connectors which will link the home hub to the BT TV box.